Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights — and maybe, just maybe, it’s time to bring back The Muppet Show.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The variety special will serve as a backdoor pilot and, in success, would spawn a new Muppet Show television series. The event, ...

It's time to play the music: Sabrina Carpenter will guest star on the one-off special set to air in 2026. Reading time 1 minute After a pair of pilots made in 1974 and 1975, The Muppet Show officially ...

Fifty years ago—even earlier if you count its two early pilots—The Muppet Show arrived to prove that a frog could host a variety show and that human celebrities could mix it up in sketch comedy and ...

"It's time to raise the curtain." When Disney bought the Muppets in the early 2000s, it seemed like the perfect home for Jim Henson’s characters after his death in the 1990s. However, more than 20 ...

After nearly 50 years, "The Muppet Show" returns, "back [says Kermit, your amphibian compere] on the very stage where it all started and then ended and then is maybe starting again depending on how ...

You ever plan for your day to be about one thing, but then it turns out to be about something else? That’s kind of how we imagine Disney’s Wednesday has been going, as the company rolled out ...

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights — and maybe, just maybe, it's time to bring back The Muppet Show. Disney+ has ordered a new Muppets special for 2026 that will serve as a ...